Unit 13 Dreams and ambition.ppt

Unit 13 Dreams and Ambition
Qin Yi
Step 1 Warm-up questions (20 mins)
The students will hear the teacher read an excerpt from the great speech “I have a dream.”
Students will then answer the following questions:
Question 1: How much do you know about Martin Luther King?
Question 2: Are black people equal to other people today in the world? If not, what’s wrong?
Question 3: What dream(s) do you have recently?
Students are free to talk on the three questions. If more students lack the knowledge of the great American figure, spend a little time explaining, so as to prepare for Step 2.
Step 1 Warm-up (continued)
I Have a Dream
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
Step 1 Warm-up (continued)
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we'e here today to dramatize a shameful condition…
Step 2 Group Work: Dreams and hopes (25 mins)
The teacher divides the whole class into several groups. Ask students to discuss in groups and each group chooses a representative to make a presentation after their discussion and agreement.
The teacher walks around the classroom during discussion time, ready to offer help